2024 QWF Literary Awards winners

The Quebec Writers’ Federation Literary Awards, which honour the best of English-language literature in Quebec, were announced at a live event on Nov. 12

Along with the winners in eight categories, for which shortlists were announced in October, the Quebec Writers’ Federation also awarded the carte blanche Prize and the QWF College Writers Award, and presented the previously announced honorary Judy Mappin Community Award.

Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction

• Sabrina Reeves, Little Crosses (House of Anansi Press)

Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction

• Gail Scott, Furniture Music (Wave Books)

A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry

• Derek Webster, National Animal (Signal Editions/Véhicule Press)

Concordia University First Book Prize

• Sabrina Reeves, Little Crosses (House of Anansi Press)

Janet Savage Blachford Prize for Children’s and Young Adult Literature

• Marie-Louise Gay, Hopscotch (Groundwood Books)

Prix de traduction de la Fondation Cole

• Stéphane Martelly, Équateur magnétique (Triptyque)
  Translation of Kaie Kellough, Magnetic Equator (McClelland & Stewart)

QWF Prize for Playwriting

• Leanna Brodie & Jovanni Sy, Salesman in China (Stratford Festival)

Ian Ferrier Spoken Word Prize

• Moe Clark, “committing a dream / pâwakan Palestine”
• Lucia De Luca, “Congratulations”
• Mac van den Hoeven, “Memory Justice”

The Judy Mappin Community Award was presented to Christopher DiRaddo.

The carte blanche Prize was awarded to Lena Palacios for her creative nonfiction work, “Playtime in Carmella’s Room: A Memoir,” published in issue 49 of carte blanche. Runners up are Erin Robinsong for her poem “BONE-EATING SNOT FLOWER” and Deborah Ostrovsky for her translation of Zoologies by Laurence Leduc-Primeau.

The QWF College Writers Award went to Maxence Gagné of Champlain College St. Lambert for his short story “Echoes of Leïla.”